Designation: | Immortal Harvest (SCP-████-B) | ||
Type: | Location | ||
Anomaly: | Pressure antithetical to Life; Vital Non-Bivalence | ||
Homeostasis: | ? | Unknown | |
Awareness: | ? | Unknown | |
Hazards: | Cessation of life | ||
Required Gear: | No equipment and clothing made from natural substances, processed or unprocessed, is suitable for use inside the High Pressure Zone. | ||
Dimensions: | Radius: approx. 12 m; Height: 48 m | ||
Position: | Liberated Site Nocturnal Throne |
Usage
Perimeters have been established surrounding the central chamber housing the anomaly: An Extreme Pressure Zone in a radius of 50 meters from the chamber's outer wall, a High Pressure Zone of 80 m radius, an Intermediate Pressure Zone of 180 meters and a final Low Pressure Zone of 2 km surrounding the anomaly. The perimeters also extend vertically.
No living or dead personnel may remain within the HPZ for more than 3 consecutive minutes and no more than one such person my be there at once. The EPZ must not be entered by living or dead personnel, with the exception of luring a target towards the Item. All requests for further manned expeditions in the EPZ are to be denied, for there is no reward worth the endeavour.
All rooms within the IPZ are equipped with signage inside and outside indicating their maximal occupancy and safe staying time; the closer to the HPZ, the lower. Neither limits must be exceeded. Personnel may stay indefinitely in the LPZ, but must not gather into dense crowds.
Designated targets for the Immortal Harvest must be brought within the Item's AoE and kept there until affected by the anomaly. As cooperation is not to be expected by most targets, deception or force may be necessary. Nocturnal Throne is therefore to be provided with sufficient assets to forcefully subdue targets and maintain the appearance of being more important to our organization than it really is. For this purpose, local personnel is given special permission to use insignia and other indications of rank above their own.
Report
The Immortal Harvest is the surrounding of an as of yet unidentified anomaly at the centre of the first sector of Nocturnal Throne (formerly Foundation Site-███). With increasing proximity to the anomaly it becomes increasingly difficult for living objects to exist or be created within the area. Life is affected by the Immortal Harvest regardless of whether it is currently alive or dead.
All living objects' have a certain resistance to the Item's effect from which an exposure time until deterioration can be calculated. This resistance inversely proportional to the density of living matter in a given area and the aliveness of the object; dead bodies and microbes can endure much deeper into the AoE than humans or megafauna can.
Once the exposure time of a given living or dead object is exceeded, it will undergo a rapid deterioration and re-integration event during which ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ into the Immortal Harvest. No necromantic reconstruction of body or mind of affected objects is possible, providing effective means for neutralization of threats living or dead that are immune to physical force or death.
The PoO of the Immortal Harvest is located inside a perfectly smooth cylindrical cavity 24 m in diameter, located around where leaked documents indicate the former position of SCP-████'s containment chamber. The cavity is extending up- and downwards by about 4 meters each from the chambers designated location, cutting through rooms in the levels above. The anomaly can not be directly observed because light rapidly loses intensity inside of the cavity, however sonar imaging shows the area to be empty. Multiple tethered drones have been send to explore, but all were invariably lost when a sudden pull severed the tether in immediate vicinity to the central axis.
Nothing more is known about the Immortal Harvest. In a rare case of appropriate crisis response, the Farce could scuttle the mainframe holding documentation on SCP-████ during the raid on Site-███ before information could be extracted. When SCP-████'s subsequently breached containment during the event, it resulted in the current cavity and neutralization of all hostiles and allies in the area. All printed records were affected as well, due to being made of paper. All remaining assets have been retrieved where possible.